- American Short stories, Short stories, Montana, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
In these ten exquisite stories, Richard Ford mines literary gold from the wind-scrubbed landscape of the American West--and from the guarded hopes and gnawing loneliness of the people who live there. "Rock Springs" is a masterpiece of taut narration, cleanly chiseled prose, and empathy so generous that it feels like a kind of grace.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Richard Ford
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- Flamingo, Editorial Teorema, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, Portuguese, French
- ISBN
- 9780871131591
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